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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FOUR LETTERS, c. THE FIRST LETTER. To the worshipful, my very good Friend M. Emanuel Demetrius, at his House by the Church in Lime Street, in London. Master Demetrius, I earnestly commend this bearer, M. Doctor Harvey, my good friend, unto you, being a very excellent general scholar, who is desirous of your acquaintance and friendship, especially for the sight of some of your antiquities and monuments, and also for some conference touching the state of foreign countries, as your leisure may conveniently serve. You shall assuredly find the gentleman very honest and thankful, and me ready to re-acquite your courtesy and favour to him so shewn, in that I possibly may. And so with the remembrance of my hearty recommendations, with like thanks for your two letters of foreign news, received the last week, I commit you to the protection of the Almighty. Your loving friend, Walden, this 29th of August, 1592. CHRISTOPHER BIRD. Instead of other novels, I send you my opinion, in a plain but true sonnet, upon the famous new work entitled, A Quippefor an upstart Courtier; or, forsooth, A quaint Dispute betweene Velvet- breeches and Cloth-breeches: as fantastical and fond a dialogue as I have seen; and, for some particulars, one of the most licentious and intolerable invectives that ever I read: wherein the lewd fellow, and impudent railer, in an odious and desperate mood, without any other cause or reason, amongst sundry other persons notoriously defamed, most spitefully and villanously abuseth an ancient neighbour of mine, one M. Harvey, a right honest man, of good reckoning; and one that above twenty years since bare the chiefest office in Walden with good credit, and hath maintained four sons in Cambridge and elsewhere, with great charges; all sufficiently able to ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217722919 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217722911 |
| Weight | 0.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 64 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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